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“From Within and Without the Wall of Troy: Domesticity and War in The Iliad ” By: Andrea Antenan

“From Within and Without the Wall of Troy: Domesticity and War in The Iliad ” By: Andrea Antenan Sophomore Mellon Scholar. The Iliad b y Homer. “Rage– Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, m urderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,

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“From Within and Without the Wall of Troy: Domesticity and War in The Iliad ” By: Andrea Antenan

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  1. “From Within and Without the Wall of Troy: Domesticity and War in The Iliad” By: Andrea Antenan Sophomore Mellon Scholar

  2. The Iliad by Homer

  3. “Rage– Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls…” - The Iliad, I, 1-3

  4. The Trojan Wall

  5. The Trojan Wall

  6. “And Iris came on Helen in her rooms… weaving a growing web, a dark red flowing robe, working into the weft the endless bloody struggles stallion-breaking Trojans and Argive armed in bronze had suffered all for her at the god of battle’s hands.” -The Iliad,III, 150-154

  7. “And Iris came on Helen in her rooms… weaving a growing web, a dark red flowing robe, working into the weft the endless bloody struggles stallion-breaking Trojans and Argive armed in bronze had suffered all for her at the god of battle’s hands.” -The Iliad,III, 150-154

  8. “And with those words the goddess filled her heart with yearning warm and deep for her husband long ago, her city and her parents.” -The Iliad, III, 167-169

  9. “And with those words the goddess filled her heart with yearning warm and deep for her husband long ago, her city and her parents.” -The Iliad, III, 167-169

  10. “At that, Hector spun and rushed from his house, back by the same way down the wide, well-paved streets throughout the city until he reached the Scaean Gates, the last point he would pass to gain the field in battle. There his warm, generous wife came running up to meet him…” - The Iliad, VI, 462-466

  11. “At that, Hector spun and rushed from his house, back by the same way down the wide, well-paved streets throughout the city until he reached the Scaean Gates, the last point he would pass to gain the field in battle. There his warm, generous wife came running up to meet him…” - The Iliad, VI, 462-466

  12. ‘”You Hector—you are my father now, my noble mother, a brother too, and you are my husband, young and warm and strong! Pity me, please! Take your stand on the rampart here, before you orphan your son and make your wife a widow...” - The Iliad, VI, 508-512

  13. ‘”You Hector—you are my father now, my noble mother, a brother too, and you are my husband, young and warm and strong! Pity me, please! Take your stand on the rampart here, before you orphan your son and make your wife a widow...” - The Iliad, VI, 508-512

  14. “The majestic king of Troy slipped past the rest and kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his knees and kissed his hand, those terrible, man-killing hands that had slaughtered Priam’s many sons in battle.” - The Iliad, XXIV, 559-562

  15. “The majestic king of Troy slipped past the rest and kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his knees and kissed his hand, those terrible, man-killing hands that had slaughtered Priam’s many sons in battle.” - The Iliad, XXIV, 559-562

  16. “Those words stirred within Achilles a deep desire to grieve his own father. Taking the old man’s hand he gently moved him back. And overpowered by memory both men gave way to grief. - The Iliad, XXIV, 592-595

  17. “Those words stirred within Achilles a deep desire to grieve his own father. Taking the old man’s hand he gently moved him back. And overpowered by memory both men gave way to grief. - The Iliad, XXIV, 592-595

  18. “And white-armed Andromache led their songs of sorrow, cradling the head of Hector, man-killing Hector gently in her arms: “O my husband. . . Cut off from life so young! You leave me a widow, Lost in the royal halls– and the boy only a baby… I cannot think he will ever come to manhood.” - The Iliad, XXIV, 850-856

  19. For more information… Contact me at… andrea.antenan@hope.edu @LitandALatte andreaantenan.wordpress.com

  20. Textual Source: Homer, Robert Fagles, and Bernard Knox. The Iliad. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, 1990. All of the following passages are from this source. Media Sources: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Illustrations-from-the-Iliad/3291648 https://wikis.nyu.edu/display/owag/Staging+the+Iliad+Book+3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astyanax http://ithaka.wikispaces.com/Hector+and+Andromache http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=church&book=iliad&story=hector https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/dictionary/Dict/ASP/dictionaryBody.asp?name=Priam.html https://www.flickr.com/photos/hansecoloursmay/3583484256/ http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/collections/work/N261,26/zoom http://crookedmirror.wordpress.com/category/human-rights/ http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/N12.1.htmls http://hadrian6.tumblr.com/page/108 http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/fuessli-johann-heinrich/the-body-of-sarpedon-brou.htm http://www.consolatio.com/2006/11/the_iliad_hecto.htmll http://weaponsandwarfare.com/?attachment_id=29546#main

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